although there are a handful of later copies. William continued to revise the text over the next decade or so, with many of the revisions removing potentially offensive remarks about his contemporaries. Copies were made of the manuscript prior to and after the revisions and subsequently several descendants of these as well. All together there are nineteen medieval versions of the manuscript that provide us with a complex yet large record of the history of the text. The first printed edition of the History of the English Bishops was produced by Sir Henry Savile in 1596. He used Cambridge University Library's MS Ff.1.25.1 as his source and so it contains only the first four books. The source manuscript itself was a descendant of British Library Royal 13 D V, itself a copy of Magdalen College, Oxford MS lat. 172. Citations References External links Lambeth Palace Library Lancaster University, Medieval Primary Sources Parker Library on the Web Gesta Pontificum Anglorum (Cotton MS Claudius A V) in the British Library Gesta Pontificum Anglorum (Harley 3641) in the British Library Gesta Pontificum Anglorum (Royal 13 D V) in the British Library Gesta Pontificum Anglorum (Books 1-4), an early copy of the text dating from the late twelfth century in Cambridge Digital Library Gesta Pontificum Anglorum (Book 5), a copy made in the sixteenth century for Matthew Parker in Cambridge Digital Library Gesta Pontificum Anglorum (MS. Bodl. 357) in the Bodleian Library English chronicles Latin historical texts from Norman and Angevin England 12th-century Latin books 12th century in England 12th-century Christian texts